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Spaceport Magazine, April 2018 April 2018 Vol. 5 No. 4 National Aeronautics and Space Administration KENNEDY SPACE CENTER’S magazine Newest NOAA Weather Satellite Launches to Earth Orbit KENNEDY SPACE CENTER’S SPACEPORT MAGAZINE National Aeronautics and Space Administration CONTENTS For the latest on upcoming launches, check out NASA’s Launches and Landings 4 ...................... NOAA’s GOES-S will provide more accurate forecasts, warnings Schedule at www.nasa.gov/launchschedule. 9 ...................... Astronaut surveys launch pad for crew flights to station 11 ................... Dragon to deliver supplies to International Space Station Want to see a launch? The Kennedy Space Center 12 ................... InSight spacecraft prepared for testing Visitor Complex offers the closest public viewing of launches from Kennedy DEBII CALDWELL 15 ................... NASA wants ideas from teams for future human space missions Space Center and Cape NASA Voice Systems Lead Canaveral Air Force Station. NASA-Kennedy IT Launch Transportation 16 ................... Last of the big swing arm umbilicals installed on mobile launcher Tickets are available for some, but not all, of these As the NASA voice systems lead, I work with customers launches. Call 321-449- from all programs at Kennedy to help them get the ground 18 ................... Orion Crew Access Arm installed on mobile launcher 4444 for information on communications they need, such as operational intercomm purchasing tickets. (OIS), paging and radio. 21 ................... Solar panels opened on NASA’s TESS satellite I started working at Kennedy in June 1987 in Shuttle Flight Controls. I moved to Payload Ground Communications in 1994. When will the International After working in shuttle processing for a few years, I wanted to Space Station fly over you? expand my knowledge and experience to other activities at the space center. I worked in ground instrumentation for a couple of Find out and sign up for alerts at years, then moved to Payload Comm. I’ve been in Comm ever spotthestation.nasa.gov since. The biggest challenge is having the desire to please all of our customers, but having so much work that it’s hard to get it all Cover: A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifted off from done. Fortunately, we’ve hired a few new people recently, and I Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station think they will help a lot. on March 1, 2018, carrying NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-S). Liftoff was at 5:02 p.m. EST. I’ve had so many awesome memories since I came to work with GOES-S is the second satellite in a series of next-generation weather satellites. Photo credit: NASA/Bill White NASA. I had only been here for three days when a couple of co-workers took me into the shuttle aft compartment, and over time I had work that took me into the crew compartment, the payload bay, inside the booster forward and aft skirts, and even To get the latest Kennedy Space Center updates, follow us on our Blog, Flickr, Facebook and Twitter. the shuttle wing. There are so many amazing things that we get to take part in KSC improving every day! BLOG THE SPACEPORT MAGAZINE TEAM Editorial Writers Group Creative Group Editor ............................ Linda Herridge Stefano Coledan Bob Granath Greg Lee Amy Lombardo Asst. Editor ................... Anna Heiney Anna Heiney Linda Herridge Richard Murrey Matthew Young SKY WATCHING NOAA’s GOES-S will provide more accurate forecasts, weather warnings BY BOB GRANATH NASA launched the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S into orbit for NOAA -- the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on March 1, 2018. Liftoff occurred at 5:02 p.m. EST atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex (SLC) 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. 4 SPACEPORT Magazine SPACEPORT Magazine 5 A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station The spacecraft, known as GOES-S, will give meteorologists transported to the Cape where it was mounted on top of the rocket. carrying NOAA’s Geostationary an additional tool to significantly improve the detection and NOAA manages the GOES-R Series Program through an Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-S) Liftoff was at observation of environmental phenomena that directly affect public integrated NOAA/NASA office and oversees the acquisition of 5:02 p.m. EST on March 1, 2018. safety and protection of property. the program ground system. NASA oversees the acquisition of the Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett spacecraft, instruments and launch vehicles. Lockheed Martin Space of Littleton, Colorado, built the spacecraft and is responsible for spacecraft development, integration and testing. At Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida, NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S), is rotated to a vertical position Dec. 5, 2017, after it was uncrated from its shipping container. The facility is located near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett GOES-S is the second in the GOES-R Series of next-generation weather satellites that includes GOES-R (now GOES-16), -S, -T and -U. GOES-S will be renamed GOES-17 when it reaches The payload fairing containing NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) is lifted up by crane Feb. 16, 2018, at the United Launch Alliance geostationary orbit. It will reside in a geostationary position over Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force the Pacific Ocean to provide imagery and data to improve weather Station. Photo credit: NASA/Glenn Benson forecasts for the western continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, and Pacific Ocean to New Zealand. Geosynchronous satellites orbit Mission operations are performed by NOAA at their Satellite about 22,000 miles above the Earth allowing them to keep constant Operations Facility in Suitland, Maryland. Harris Corp. of watch over the same location. These spacecraft play a crucial role in Melbourne, Florida, provided the main instrument payload, the U.S. weather monitoring and forecasting. Advanced Baseline Imager and the ground system, which The GOES-S satellite was delivered to Kennedy’s Shuttle includes the antenna system for data receipt. United Launch Landing Facility by a U.S. Air Force C-5 Galaxy cargo jet on Dec. Alliance of Centennial, Colorado, is the provider of the Atlas V 4, 2017. GOES-S was then transported to the Astrotech payload launch service. NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP), based processing facility in Titusville where it was checked out and tested. at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, manages the agency’s efforts to Meanwhile on Jan. 22 the ULA Atlas V booster and Centaur commercially provide rockets for specific missions. LSP also directs upper stage arrived aboard a Mariner transport ship at Port the overall launch effort including overseeing development and Canaveral’s Army Wharf. The rocket stages then were transported integration of the rocket with the spacecraft. to the Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center (ASOC) near SLC 41 at the Cape for inspections and checkouts. On Jan. 24, the Centaur upper stage was transported from the ASOC to the Delta Operations Center for further processing. A For more information about the week later, the Atlas V booster was moved from the ASOC to the Vertical Integration Facility at SLC 41 where it was positioned on GOES-R Series Program, visit: its launcher. Soon after, the Centaur was stacked on the booster. Once checkouts and processing were completed at the Astrotech http://www.goes-r.gov. facility, GOES-S was encapsulated in its payload fairing and 6 SPACEPORT Magazine SPACEPORT Magazine 7 Astronaut surveys launch pad for crew flights to station NASA astronaut Eric Boe, one of four astronauts working with the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, had the opportunity to check out the Crew Access Tower at Space Launch Complex 41 on Feb. 28 with a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V on the pad. Boe, along with launch operations engineers from NASA, Boeing and ULA, climbed the launch pad tower to evaluate lighting and spotlights after dark. The survey helped ensure crew members will have acceptable visibility as they prepare to launch aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft on the Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station, targeted for later this year. 8 SPACEPORT Magazine SPACEPORT Magazine 9 Dragon to deliver supplies to International Space Station Commercial Resupply Services Mission: SpaceX CRS-14 Launch Time and Date: 4:30 p.m., Monday, April 2, 2018 Launch Off: Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida Launch Vehicle: SpaceX Falcon 9, 230 feet tall Spacecraft: Dragon, 20 feet high, 12 feet in diameter Payload: Dragon delivering more than 5,800 pounds of cargo and material to support science investigations aboard the International Space Station. Return to Earth: After about one month attached to the space station, Dragon will return with results of earlier experiments, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California. Payloads on Board: Visit https://go.nasa.gov/2Isu6rt The two-stage Falcon 9 launch vehicle lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, carrying the Dragon resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Tony Gray, Tim Powers and Tim Terry 10 SPACEPORT Magazine SPACEPORT Magazine 11 InSight spacecraft prepared for testing Inside the Astrotech processing facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, or InSight, spacecraft has been mounted on to a rotation fixture for testing. InSight is scheduled to launch May 5, 2018, atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket for its trip to Mars. InSight was developed and built by Lockheed- Martin Space Systems in Denver, Colorado, and arrived at Vandenberg on Feb.
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